The Best of 2020

After several requests to post my best films of the year for 2020, I decided to go ahead with it. I have not darkened the doors of a movie theater since February 2020. That means that all of these films have been watched at home, and to me that’s a rather large grain of salt to add to this list. I have no idea on what system I saw them. I also watched a bunch of series (so did you, right?) and I have tried to weed those out and proceed with single shot movies. And there are still well-reviewed 2020 films I haven’t been able to see but hope to before too much longer. No 10s this year but some good movies anyway. So here goes: 

1- Nomadland:  9

2- News of the World:  9

3- Driveways: 9

4- Promising Young Woman: 9

5- The Father: 8

6- Soul: 8

7- Supernova: 8

8- The Trial of the Chicago 7:  8

9- Dick Johnson Is Dead:  8

10- Alone:  8

11- One Night In Miami:  8

The sevens are in no particular order. 

Sylvie’s Love 7

Enola Holmes 7

Rebecca 7

The Trip To Greece 7

Emma 7

Ammonite 7

The Way Back 7

Collective 7

Mulan 7

Let Him Go 7

Da 5 Bloods 7

The Photograph 7

Mank 7

The Old Guard 7

Onward 7

The Midnight Sky 7

Stray 7

Minari 7

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 7

I don’t usually include the 7s but the list seemed skimpy without them. A number of films on this list will show up in 2020 sleepers articles, which cannot be far behind!